However, I'd like to have a option to override Styles when I'm compiling. It's the first time in years I finally produced something I consider worth sharing with a couple of beta & proof readers, where the output is using my styles which are a lot of things but certainly not for making notes in the manuscript. Maybe nobody is using old-fashioned PDF's for that task except me, if so, please tell me.

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Thanks. Either I'm spectacularly dumb or I manage to create a complete mess.

Unless I do create my very own compile format I do get font substitution in compile, but neither line spacing nor paragraph spacing is changed. If I create my own compile format, I'll have to adapt my format template for compiling to any style I used in my manuscript, right?

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You could perhaps more easily take one of the built-in formats and adapt that to your purposes, if one of them already does 95% of what you need outside of matching style names properly.

As for paragraph attributes not applying, that should work, so double-check to make sure the original style is a paragraph style, and that the style in the compile pane that is meant to overwrite it is also a paragraph style.

This sample project demonstrates a very simple example of style overrides in action.

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